"This is a time to focus on what was a devastating storm and the terrible aftermath of that storm," he said.
Claire's family, as well as her marriage and its terrible aftermath, has a curious muffled quality, as does the novel itself.
— It is a sadly familiar story: A police call to an apparent disturbance; a sudden encounter between an officer and a suspect believed to be armed; a snap decision; pops of gunfire and the terrible aftermath of blood and regret.
Without the invasion of Iraq, and the disillusionment with the U.S. political establishment that its terrible aftermath created, it is hard to see how a demagogue like Trump could ever have gained traction in national politics.
Mr. McCurry captured the plumes and geysers from the crashing towers and then the terrible aftermath.
There was nothing blocking our view of the attacks and their terrible aftermath.
Butcher (the author of the bestselling Congo narrative Blood River) has written a marvellously absorbing book on the nature of one man's political grievance and its terrible aftermath.
One suggestion I heard from a Baghdad resident is that Sir John Chilcot and his panel should pack up and go to Iraq to talk to the people suffering the terrible aftermath of war and sanctions.
The former prime minister claimed that the terrible aftermath was only obvious in hindsight, yet Christian Aid warned of "significant chaos and suffering in Iraq long after military strikes have ended".
But in calling for total withdrawal and, most shamefully, in valorizing the Vietnamese Communists, the antiwar movement surely bears some of the responsibility not only for the defeat but also for the terrible aftermath of the war: the "hundreds of thousands of our Vietnamese allies" imprisoned, as noted by Mr. Morris, and the "more than a million driven into exile".
As Julian fends off the endeavours of his mother and his former girlfriend, the indomitable Katie, to draw him from his despair, he revisits in memory the events that have led him here: Mira's sudden illness; the sleepless nights spent in desperate vigil by her hospital bed; the operations; the terrible aftermath.
